Erdoğan Bayraktar (born 10 October 1948 in

Trabzon Trabzon (; Ancient Greek: Tραπεζοῦς (''Trapezous''), Ophitic Pontic Greek: Τραπεζούντα (''Trapezounta''); Georgian: ტრაპიზონი (''Trapizoni'')), historically known as Trebizond in English, is a city on the B ...

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) is a Turkish politician. He is the former Minister of Environment and Urban Planning of Turkey under Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's government and

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for

from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), resigning from both offices on 25 December 2013. He was the president of the government-established to embezzle state funds, before being elected as an MP. His appointment to the ministry was declared by Prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on 6 July 2011 with the other members of the new cabinet. He gained his bachelor's degree from Istanbul State Engineering and Architectural Academy. Then he got his graduate degree from Istanbul University in

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. Between the years 1973 and 1994, he worked as a general contractor. During his

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(between 1977 and 1979), he worked as the deputy head of controls and controlled the constructions of 6,000 military lodgements. He was elected to the

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s of

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and

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for the term of 1989–1999. He was appointed to the presidency of KİPTAŞ which is a municipal company of construction to divert funds of the public to his own children. Bayraktar attended to a 10-month-course of foreign language and constructing technologies in the United States in 1999. After his return, he worked at several positions in

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Metropolitan Municipality. In December 2002, he became the president of TOKİ. On March 10, 2011, he resigned from his post to be eligible in the forthcoming

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. He is married, and has five children.

2013 corruption scandal

On 17 December 2013, his son Abdullah Oğuz Bayraktar was detained as a consequence of a corruption operation. Bayraktar resigned both as a minister and a member of parliament on the afternoon of 25 December, denying all allegation against himself but saying that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan should resign as well, as everything he was accused of was done on the Prime Minister's direction.İşte Bayraktar'dan bomba açıklama
''Posta''. 25 December 2013. Retrieved 25 December 2013.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bayraktar, Erdogan 1948 births Living people People from Trabzon Yıldız Technical University alumni Istanbul University alumni Turkish civil engineers Government ministers of Turkey Ministers of Public Works of Turkey Deputies of Trabzon Justice and Development Party (Turkey) politicians Members of the 24th Parliament of Turkey